[...] She isn’t flirting, she is serious. She needs to find out whether this infatuation, she says, the strongest she has ever experienced, is about him, is about Arnold Bush, or whether she needed to be in love, needed the strength which being in love gave her to do what was necessary, to divorce. She needs to know in order to get on with her life.

Can Arnold help her with that?

He listens, silent on the other end. He doesn’t say no, but he makes it clear that he thinks she is asking for something to which she is not entitled.

He says she may visit his office the next day at two o’clock.